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Re: Ask HN: What tools would make your Kubernetes development experience better?

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One thing I just hit is that there doesn't seem to be any way to ask from a Pod to get a TLS certificate signed by the cluster itself (that would only be valid inside the cluster, of course) that is valid for the IP(s) and DNS names associated by Kubernetes itself with the pod (and to automatically rotate etc such certs). Since the infrastructure already knows (and controls) this information, it would be the ideal pl…

Couldn’t do this with cert-manager or maybe one of the service meshes?

Reading through their docs, it seems cert-manager should support this, but unfortunately it wasn't available in our cluster. I'll see if there is any reason we couldn't add it.

Re: Ask HN: What tools would make your Kubernetes development experience better?

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My advice from personal experience in the ideation phase is to first build out an ideal customer profile, then solicit advice from those people. What tools I need as a jr dev with no docker experience vs a dev ops admin is going to be vastly different. As a software engineer who has tried to build a business with their own app as a solo dev using Docker/Helm/Kubernetes to host in DigitalOcean I found all the tooling…

Thank you for taking the time to provide valuable feedback. I really appreciate your insights!
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